title: Issues in African-American family preservation.
abstract: This article is concerned with African-American family preservation. The authors' assumptions are that (1) child welfare service takes place in a cultural context; (2) effective work with African-American families requires a culturally relative "nondeficit" perspective on African-American culture; (3) this begins with helping service providers to acquire an analytical approach to culture and factual knowledge about the cultural behavior of clients; and (4) staff members must be prepared through training to implement a cultural knowledge base in transactions with African-American families and must have the supervisory and policy supports to do this. The several practice issues central to African-American family preservation are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Nybell
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000208:ethnology; D002669:Child Welfare; D003142:Communication; D003256:Community Participation; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D012380:Role